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Which former companion should travel with the Doctor again?
Through the Big Finish plays, quite a few classic companions are revisited after their travels with the Doctor only to end up having further adventures with him.
Both Romana and Leela meet later incarnations of the Doctor whilst older versions of both Peri and Nyssa end up travelling with their Doctor again (Nyssa with the 5th and Peri with the 6th). There has also been a reunion between Tegan and the 5th Doctor about 20 years after she last saw him. We've also had this with Sarah Jane too, on the TV show. But if a former companion was brought back to travel with the Doctor again (on TV) either for a whole season or just for a few episodes, who would you want it to be and why? |
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Romana, she was his better, academically and by status, he didn't like that and it made for very funny dialogue.
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Ian
Ace Jo Rose Jack Susan |
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Jo, because Katy Manning and Peter Capaldi seem lovely together and a reunion with her and the Doctor who looks up to hers would be brilliant.
Romana, whose return I've been waiting for for ages. Like Pull2Open said, her being his better and making him jealous made for some great scenes and I think part of why I loved The Key to Time so much was because she almost brought as much life into it as the Doctor. Big Finish has continued to make her a different but still great character. Charley Pollard, even if she hasn't been on the TV show, but she's awesome enough. Martha, because Freema Agyeman has so much potential under better writers. And Frobisher. I don't care if people complain about him being too silly, I won't give up until the goofy Wifferdill penguin turns up on the TV. |
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I've always thought Rose would be an interesting one to bring back as a regular.
Older. Harder. I pictured 10.5 going bad and causing a lot of anguish in Pete's World (DT guest appearance at some point), and a part of her would resent the Doctor for trapping her there with him. It could be an interesting way to draw upon the Doctor's own, and the show's, history in how sometimes the Doctor doesn't get it right, and how he hurts those closest to him. I think it'd work if you had Rose as a companion alongside a younger guy or girl. More naive. More Rose Series One. And seeing that contrast of what the Doctor can do to you. Obviously over the course of the stint, we'd see more of the sympathetic and caring Rose come out. I have an image of Rose stepping out of the TARDIS onto the Powell Estate, with tears in her eyes. Shell-shocked at being back to her beginnings, after all that she's seen since. |
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Not necesRily travel with, but Ian should make an appearance.
To travel with, definitely Jo or Jack, or both. |
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I'd bring back Jamie. It wouldn't be the same without Pat Troughton, but he'd still be great.
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I'd like to see Jo Grant and Captain Jack.
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I'd like to see Mel again. She over-played it a bit on TV, but Bonnie Langford is great on Audio where she reels it back a bit, and she has a really endearing energetic optimism that makes adventures really fun.
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Obviously I'd love Peri back, not for the obvious reasons but I like how Big Finish have tidied up her storyline and sort of gave us the reunion with the Sixth Doctor she never really had on TV. Even if they ignored that and redid it for TV I'd be happy.
I would also love to see Ian or Susan back. Both actors are still going so it would be amazing what both these characters are upto these days though in Ian's case we've had a few references over recent years.
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None. Absolutely none.
The show is far to much of a nostalgia fest as it is. Create new characters that people want to see, create new nostalgia, don't rely on past glories. |
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Rose Tyler!
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Jamie, Wilfred and Romana.
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Donna Noble
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None should become full time companions again. But I wouldn't mind any of them appearing in one off stories or for a short run of linked stories - like Sarah Jane did in School Reunion.
Though I don't think it could ever happen for more than a few of the companions, the only danger would be from doing this too often, and the show becoming too much for the fans. |
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None. Absolutely none.
The show is far to much of a nostalgia fest as it is. Create new characters that people want to see, create new nostalgia, don't rely on past glories. |
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None. Absolutely none.
The show is far to much of a nostalgia fest as it is. Create new characters that people want to see, create new nostalgia, don't rely on past glories. |
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None. Absolutely none.
The show is far to much of a nostalgia fest as it is. Create new characters that people want to see, create new nostalgia, don't rely on past glories. |
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I quite the like the idea of the Doctor popping in to see Jamie, as long as Jamie is an older but not too much wiser version of the character.
As paperskin says, sometimes the history of the show weighs too much on the new... but there is a balance there - a lot of the younger audience who saw School Reunion had probably never even heard of Sarah Jane Smith, but still liked the episode and this "new" character that was in it. |
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Peri.
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As much as I prefer to look forward, for the sake of the thread I'd say I'd love to see Jo Grant or Ace come back in the same way that Sarah Jane did. Never the centrepiece but a special guest of a character when she shows up.
I'd love to say Donna too as I love the character tremendously, and the time with her was so cruelly short. But equally it'd feel wrong - that ship sailed a very long time ago. I remember just weeks before Jenna Coleman was cast there were rumours that Sophia Myles was going to be the companion for Series 7 and I realised I wouldn't have minded having Reinette back...or as was theorised at the time, a companion who wore many faces (as Clara/Oswin ultimately did) one of whom was Reinette. |
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None. Absolutely none.
The show is far to much of a nostalgia fest as it is. Create new characters that people want to see, create new nostalgia, don't rely on past glories. That's what I meant in my previous post, just to get Peri back for one story to give her a proper goodbye Sarah-Jane Style but nothing more. I think it's true the show has to move on and create new characters etc but there's nothing wrong with a bit of a nostalgia dip now and again. Guess it's all about getting the balance right between old and new.
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Jo, because Katy Manning and Peter Capaldi seem lovely together and a reunion with her and the Doctor who looks up to hers would be brilliant.
It would be great to see, wouldn't it, eh? ![]() Also, I think Nicola Bryant should come back, too. At least for a few episodes, anyway. Apart from Jo, Peri was my favourite Classic Who companion. It's a shame Catherine Tate can't come back as Donna for the TV Series. She would die if she remembered her Tardis days, even for one second. Her head would explode.To date, she is my most favourite Modern Who companion. |
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I agree one-offs and nostalgia dips now and again is a good thing (if done right) but nostalgia should never dominate a whole season or the show...
Its all to easy with nostalgia to get lazy... or its used as an easy way to write a story quickly, rather than come up with something new that its own thing, which is something I think Moffat has been doing.. I think its very telling that Moffats first two series in charge had much more new stuff, he was adding new stuff to the whoverse and its mythology and was creating his own strand of it where as from series 7 he has been relying on past mythology (and the nostalgia for that) to fuel his stories, its easier to write this as you have the building blocks already there, and lots of it to jump off from and spin a story, where as creating something new from scratch is a lot more time consuming and difficult, its easier to write a story that features the Daleks Davros and The Master than it is to write The Empty Child or Blink... We know Moffat has had difficulties in getting scripts done in time and that he's overworked and burnt out a bit and I think its reflected in his work... he has chosen to mine and rely on past glories and the mythology of the show since the start of series 7 and fans don't mind this as they tend to like nostalgia stuff but its quite insular... Personally I don't think its a good thing, nostalgia is only good in moderation, the show especially a show with the concept it has should be innovating and ever changing and not be a nostalgia fest.. Moffat himself when promoting series 5 talked about how he wanted to create new nostalgia rather than rely on it, and how he didn't want to run into the same foes all the time as it makes the universe small... what happened to that mentality of his.. The Cybermen have they really warranted the amount of episodes they have had, have they been used because writers have had great stories to tell with them or have they featured throughout new who because of nostalgia.... Only their first appearance felt like it was using them to tell a meaningful story about them and using it to comment on other things, all their other appearances have been hey throw in the Cybermen.... Although there was one other Cybermen episode that used then in new interesting evolving ways, it was called Asylum of the Daleks, sadly though TPTB miscast the Cybermen with that other nostalgia fuelled group... I think though people will have a varied different opinions about what the balance of new and old should be... some may love the nostalgia fest... but for me with these last two series it wasn't the Moffat written nostalgia fests of Daleks Cybermen The Master Time Lords and Galifrey that most excited me but rather it was the fresh additions of the Mummy on the train and the 2d creatures... |
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It's a shame Catherine Tate can't come back as Donna for the TV Series.
She would die if she remembered her Tardis days, even for one second. Her head would explode.To date, she is my most favourite Modern Who companion. But now that River Song's story is completely over (for continuity), and Gallifrey is back, maybe the Time Lords could do something to restore her memory without a burn-up occurring. |
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It would be great to see, wouldn't it, eh?
She would die if she remembered her Tardis days, even for one second. Her head would explode.